![]() ![]() It encompasses tender love between divergent species, political downfalls and acts of unspeakable violence. Will this lead to the final death knell of the species called Homo sapiens? Or will the Womb forgive once again? When Aliens Weep is the seventh book in the Alien Species Intervention #6609 Series, an alien apocalyptic saga spanning 200 years from the Prohibition to the distant future. One Elder will be responsible for a host of tragic deaths due to the human folly of jealousy and revenge. During the last tense moments before the demise of Earth, did those fleeing imminent destruction make it to Oolaha? As our heroic survivors learn to navigate Baby and Echo's home planet they must cope with the heartwrenching loss of family and loved ones as they are immersed in the adoring affection of thousands of minions. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Death takes Mort to his domain, where he meets Death's elderly manservant Albert, and his adopted daughter Ysabell. Just before the last stroke of midnight, Death arrives and takes Mort on as an apprentice (though his father thinks he has been apprenticed to an undertaker). Mort's father Lezek takes him to a local hiring fair in the hope that Mort will land an apprenticeship not only would this provide a job for his son, but it would also make his son's propensity for thinking someone else's problem. ![]() Plot summary Īs a teenager, Mort has a personality and temperament that makes him unsuited to the family farming business. ![]() In 2004, Pratchett stated that Mort was the first Discworld novel with which he was "pleased", stating that in previous books, the plot had existed to support the jokes, but that in Mort, the plot was integral. In the BBC's 2003 Big Read contest, viewers voted on the "Nation's Best-loved Book" Mort was among the Top 100 and chosen as the most popular of Pratchett's novels. The French language edition is titled Mortimer, and the Catalan language edition is titled Morth. The title is the name of its main character, and is also a play on words: in French and Catalan, mort means "death". ![]() Published in 1987, it is the fourth Discworld novel and the first to focus on the character Death, who only appeared as a side character in the previous novels. Mort is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. ![]() ![]() ![]() Whose wit, intelligence, and loving humanity can be felt on every page of all her books. " State of Grace is, sadly, the last beautiful, moving achievement from a woman Shamim Sarif, writer/director/filmmaker the last novel from ![]() "The Carousel has everything I look for in a great novel-beautifully drawn characters that you really care about, a story that you want to follow, love, redemption and a sense of mystery at its heart." ![]() The story behind the women who built the bombers After setting the trip odometer, she popped a disc into the dashboard CD player. She climbed into the car, started the engine, and snapped her seatbelt into place. And, it will be available everywhere eBooks, paperbacks, and audiobooks are sold on July 13, 2021. She prayed for the millionth time that she’d reach Jericho without incident. The LEGACIES of LESBIAN LITERATURE PROJECTĬlick here to learn more about this important project to record and share the stories of our foremothers before they're lost to time. Covenant, the fourth novel in Ann McMan’s beloved Jericho Series will be exclusively available in paperback and eBook formats at Bywater Books on July 1st, 2021. ![]() “Spangler’s complex and likable characters had me laughing out loud!” Lambda Literary Award-winner, KG MacGregor Rachel Spangler “Its hardscrabble characters invoke Dorothy Allison its provocative Armistead Maupin, only better."-Lee Lynch Librarian Syd Murphy flees the carnage of a failed marriage by accepting an eighteen-month position in Jericho, a small town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities-like the Housekeeper’s shoe size-and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.Īnd every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem-ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, for The Duchess War I was partly spoiled because of The Governess Affair. I’d rather go in without any expectations and just enjoy the story and writing. At this point I never look at the blurbs for Milan’s books because they feel like spoilers. The blurb says… actually, I don’t have a clue what the blurb says. ![]() I recommend you read the book before the blog post. I had a spoilery discussion about this book with Anachronist that is now posted on Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell-blog. But this time, one shy miss may prove to be more than his match… ![]() And he’s determined to lay her every secret bare before she can discover his. When Minnie figures out what he’s up to, he realizes there is more to than her spectacles and her quiet ways. So when a handsome duke comes to town, the last thing she wants is his attention.īecause Robert Blaisdell, the Duke of Clermont, is not fooled. Wallflowers may not be the prettiest of blooms, but at least they don’t get trampled. After all, the last time she was the center of attention, it ended badly–so badly that she changed her name to escape her scandalous past. Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that way. ![]() |